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Manager, Inventory Deployment - International

L brands • $85K — $110K *
Reynoldsburg, OH 43068In-Person
Retail & Consumer Goods
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, finance, statistics, operations, or supply chain.
  • 5-7 years of experience in inventory management, merchandising, demand forecasting, or space planning.
  • Strong leadership and team-building skills with supervisory experience.
  • Retail supply chain knowledge essential for the role.
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills to collaborate with various stakeholders.
  • Proven ability to motivate teams and meet challenging standards.
  • Strong analytical skills with a focus on quantitative data analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage the Inventory Deployment team to optimize buying and deployment strategies.
  • Collaborate with Merchandise Planning and Regional teams to analyze inventory and sales opportunities.
  • Provide insights on inventory actions and market needs to Commercial Managers and Regional teams.
  • Incorporate market events and holidays into deployment strategies ensuring alignment with domestic teams.
  • Develop published reporting for key item inventory levels and operational expectations.
  • Analyze market performance and recommend opportunities for inventory adjustments and size runs.
  • Supervise the new real estate process to align store assortments with sales plans.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with company matching.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.
  • Employee discounts on merchandise.
  • Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
Full Job Description
Your Role:

Manager of Inventory Deployment for Victoria's Secret International leads Inventory Deployment Analysts to support analytics, strategize and execute deployment strategies, and ensure the best inventory levels are supported to maximize sales in Victoria's Secret Franchise businesses around the world

Your Impact:

  • Lead and manage the Inventory Deployment team in the strategy of buy and deployment processes, partnering with domestic business to incorporate INTL needs into buy and deployment plans
  • Collaborate with Merchandise Planning, Regional teams, and Merchants to provide insight into opportunities in inventory/sales, hindsight prior and current seasons to provide guidance on future orders and inventory depth opportunities
  • Partner with Commercial Managers and Regional teams offering insight into inventory actions, risks/opportunities, review and research market call outs and inventory distortion needs
  • Incorporate market promos/events/holidays into buy and deployment strategies; appropriately partner with domestic deployment team build/debuild inventory levels
  • Lead the development of published reporting that supports insight into key item inventory levels, DC inbound and outbound expectations, impact to each market's inventory levels, and floorset readiness.
  • Track and analyze the performance of sales and inventory in each market, making recommendations on potential opportunities including market distortions, size run offerings, insight into size selling, recommendations for size mins and maxes, etc
  • Supervise new real estate process, ensuring stores have appropriate assortment and size distortions to support sales plan and visual presentation needs, while fitting within store capacity levels
  • Drive consistency and best practice oversight of inventory management, support S/S goals and ST expectations for each market
  • Partner with Logistics and Distribution Centers on shipping prioritization, volume projections, real estate store needs, etc.
  • Provide recommendations to and participate as necessary in CFT meetings, MPC, Floorset Planning and Execution, etc
  • Communicate with Global Partners; may visit stores to review inventory levels and improve process.
  • Provide management and supervision of Inventory Deployment team, including goal-setting, coaching, providing development opportunities and evaluating performance.


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Your Experience:

  • Bachelor degree in business, finance, statistics, operations or supply chain.
  • 5-7 years of experience in inventory management; merchandising, demand forecasting or space planning.
  • Strong leadership and team-building skills; supervisory/management experience.
  • Retail supply chain knowledge
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills; working with multiple partners to resolve exceptions and negotiate best alternatives.
  • Manages and motivates people to results; sets challenging standards of achievement; leads others to action
  • Identifies/influences critical stakeholders; proactively problem solves and recommends solutions
  • Strong analytical skills; ability to analyze and understand quantitative data
  • Moderate to advanced experience with Excel, Word, Powerpoint, etc
  • Experience with EDW, SAP, JDA a plus
  • Understands and executes against business strategy and goals
  • Strong prioritization skills


About L brands

Bath & Body Works, Inc. is an American specialty retailer based in Columbus, Ohio. It owns Bath & Body Works, posted $11.9 billion in revenue in 2021, and was listed as 248 on the 2020 Fortune 500 list of largest United States companies by revenue. In February 2020, L Brands announced the planned sale of its Victoria's Secret division to Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm. Under the agreement, Sycamore Partners would gain a 55% controlling stake in Victoria's Secret while L Brands would keep a 45% stake, leaving Bath & Body Works to become L Brand's sole business. The sale fell through in May 2020, although Wexner did step down as CEO as planned, replaced by Andrew Meslow. In March 2021, L Brands announced it would spin off Victoria’s Secret as a stand-alone publicly traded company, and then change its name to Bath & Body Works, Inc.
Learn more about L brands
Size
2,800 employees
Market Cap
$22.2 billion
Industry
Retail & Consumer Goods
Net Income
$845.3 million
Founded
1963
5 Year Trend
-0.5%
Revenue
$11.8 billion
NASDAQ
LB
* Ladders Estimates

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